SecondRow
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One of my goals this year is to learn to fly a rocket with traditional dual deployment. I don’t have any experience with electronic deployment. I’ve been looking at a couple different 4” kits to fly, but I haven’t decided on what I want just yet.
In the meantime, I bought two EggTimer Apogees and built them over the holidays. The Apogee is a single deploy flight controller that EggTimer introduced last fall. Like all EggTimer products, you put the board together yourself, but it’s nearly all through-hole soldering. Very easy to build, and only $15. With it, you get a small altimeter that will pop your nose at apogee. Pair it with a Jolly Logic chute release (which I’m comfortable using), and you get deployment of the parachute bundle at apogee, followed by the chute opening at the height you select for the JLCR. For about $12 more, EggTimer sells the EasyMount, a mount for the Apogee made by LabRat rocketry. I picked up one of those, too.
I thought I’d try to use my Apogee in something small. So I’m in the middle of modifying my Estes Prowler. Since the Prowler doesn’t have a payload bay, I decided to mount it in the nose. This thread documents the mod I made to the Prowler to fit the Apogee, shown here mounted to the EasyMount.
In the meantime, I bought two EggTimer Apogees and built them over the holidays. The Apogee is a single deploy flight controller that EggTimer introduced last fall. Like all EggTimer products, you put the board together yourself, but it’s nearly all through-hole soldering. Very easy to build, and only $15. With it, you get a small altimeter that will pop your nose at apogee. Pair it with a Jolly Logic chute release (which I’m comfortable using), and you get deployment of the parachute bundle at apogee, followed by the chute opening at the height you select for the JLCR. For about $12 more, EggTimer sells the EasyMount, a mount for the Apogee made by LabRat rocketry. I picked up one of those, too.
I thought I’d try to use my Apogee in something small. So I’m in the middle of modifying my Estes Prowler. Since the Prowler doesn’t have a payload bay, I decided to mount it in the nose. This thread documents the mod I made to the Prowler to fit the Apogee, shown here mounted to the EasyMount.